From visual arts to music to theater, metro Atlanta has an active arts scene offering something for nearly everyone. Highlights this upcoming week include performances of “Six” at the Fox Theatre as part of the Regions Bank Broadway in Atlanta series and “Turandot,” a new Atlanta Opera production that opens 100 years after its premiere.
The following 12 events will help you explore Atlanta’s arts and culture in the upcoming week.
Credit: Photo courtesy of Johnson Lowe Gallery
Credit: Photo courtesy of Johnson Lowe Gallery
Richard Dial: “American Idols”
Johnson Lowe Gallery is hosting new works by Richard Dial, whose metalwork creations in this exhibition mimic the gesture of a pencil line.
Continuing through Saturday, June 27. Johnson Lowe Gallery, 764 Miami Circle, Suite 210, Atlanta. 404-352-8114, johnsonlowe.com.
Anna Jensen: “Let’s Go Dancing”
This exhibition at the Sun ATL is inspired by the songs of Kevn Kinney, the Atlanta-based songwriter and front man of Drivin N Cryin. Anna Jensen uses saturated color and gestural form to create paintings that carry the songs’ emotional weight, rhythm and narrative undercurrents.
Continuing through Saturday, May 23. The Sun ATL, 399 Edgewood Ave., Atlanta. vinsonart.com.
Credit: Photo courtesy of the High Museum of Art
Credit: Photo courtesy of the High Museum of Art
“Isamu Noguchi: ‘I am not a designer’”
This High Museum of Art exhibition explores sculptor Isamu Noguchi’s expansive and career-spanning engagement with the space-shaping possibilities of design in works such as furniture and lighting.
Continuing through Sunday, Aug. 2. $23.50. High Museum of Art, 1280 Peachtree St. NE, Atlanta. 404-733-4400, high.org.
“Whimsy and Joy”
MARTA Artbound, the Atlanta Opera and Midtown Alliance present a concert with singers from the opera company’s stage and a spoken word artist and actor from True Colors Theatre. The performance area is on the concourse level inside the fare gates.
4-5 p.m. Wednesday, April 22. Free (but MARTA pass required to enter gates). North Avenue Station, 713 W. Peachtree St. NW, Atlanta, eventvesta.com.
Flores performs Márquez
Five-time Grammy Award-winning conductor Giancarlo Guerrero leads the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra in a south-of-the-border immersion. Renowned Venezuelan trumpet soloist Pacho Flores will perform a piece written by him as well, as one written for him by Mexico’s Arturo Márquez.
8 p.m. Thursday, April 23, and Saturday, April 25. $47.50 and up. Atlanta Symphony Hall, 1280 Peachtree St. NE, Atlanta. 404-733-4800, aso.org.
Atlanta Film Festival
The festival will present some 150 Georgia-made and international works representing more than 50 countries. The Creative Conference is also a component of the event and features 40-plus panels, workshops and discussions.
Thursday, April 23-Sunday, May 3. Badges (good for all festival screenings) $240 and up, individual events tickets $15-$50. Multiple venues including Plaza Theatre, 1049 Ponce de Leon Ave. NE, Atlanta, and the Tara Theatre, 2345 Cheshire Bridge Road NE, Atlanta. 404-352-4225, atlantafilmfestival.com.
Credit: Photo courtesy of Inman Park Dance Festival
Credit: Photo courtesy of Inman Park Dance Festival
Inman Park Dance Festival
In conjunction with the popular arts festival, the dance festival’s 25th anniversary features a program with a selection of companies and dance schools that will perform and participate in short artist conversations. Participating organizations are Ballethnic, Dance Foundry, Emory University Dance & Movement Studies Program, Full Radius Dance, Monica Hogan Danceworks and Movement Arts Atlanta.
4 p.m. Saturday, April 25, and Sunday, April 26. Free. Trolley Barn, 963 Edgewood Ave., Atlanta. festival.inmanpark.org.
“Turandot”
A new Tomer Zvulun production of Puccini’s “Turandot” opens 100 years after its premiere. This opera follows Prince Calaf’s obsessive quest to win the heart of the icy Princess Turandot and explores courage, identity and love’s transformative power.
Saturday, April 25; Tuesday, April 28; Friday, May 1; and Sunday, May 3. $61.95 and up. Cobb Energy Performing Arts Centre, 2800 Cobb Galleria Parkway, Atlanta. 770-916-2852, atlantaopera.org.
“No Tables, No Chairs”
This celebration of the African diaspora features musical styles including blues, funk and jazz, as well as family-friendly craft making, DJs and a parade through the park.
1-8 p.m. Saturday, April 25. Shirley Clarke Franklin Park, Entrance II, 1660 Johnson Road NW, Atlanta. 404-477-3003, beltline.org.
“The Wizard of Oz”: A Concert Experience
The Johns Creek Chorale will perform songs from “The Wizard of Oz” movie, including “Somewhere Over the Rainbow” and “Follow the Yellow Brick Road.” Guests are encouraged to dress in costume.
7-9 p.m. Saturday, April 25. $20. Johns Creek United Methodist Church, 11180 Medlock Bridge Road, Johns Creek. johnscreekchorale.com.
Double Feature Puppet Show: “Phantasmagoria” and “Unraveling”
Thought-provoking, mind-bending and whimsical marionettes and shadow puppetry are billed in “Phantasmagoria,” by Puppet Pants and “Unraveling” by Jim Henson Foundation grantee Shadow Girls Cult.
7:30 p.m. Monday, April 27. The Supermarket, 638 N. Highland Ave. NE, Atlanta. thesupermarketatl.com.
Credit: Photo courtesy of Broadway in Atlanta
Credit: Photo courtesy of Broadway in Atlanta
“Six: The Musical”
A Regions Bank Broadway in Atlanta presentation, “Six” gives the microphone to the six wives of Henry VIII for a celebration of 21st-century girl power.
Tuesday, April 28-Sunday, May 3. $49 and up. Fox Theatre, 660 Peachtree St. NE, Atlanta. 855-285-8499, foxtheatre.org.
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